Korset Tulang Quotes & Sayings

Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be — Mark Twain

It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what went before. For all men by nature reason alike, and well, when they have good principles. — Thomas Hobbes

The temptation is to make an idol of our own experience, to assume our pain is more singular than it is. Experience means nothing if it does not mean beyond itself: we mean nothing unless and until our hard-won meanings are internalized and catalyzed within the lives of others. There is something I am meant to see, something for which my own situation and suffering are the lens, but the cost of such seeing - I am just beginning to realize - may very well be any final clarity or perspective on my own life, my own faith. That would not be a bad fate, to burn up like the booster engine that falls away from the throttling rocket, lighting a little dark as I go. — Christian Wiman

There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop. — Mira Sorvino

YOUR BRAIN IS YOUR BITCH — Jen Sincero

I'm from the South - I love to eat, and that's why I have to exercise. — Kelly Rowland

A woman can't stay hard when all around her is loveliness. — Susan Vreeland

If he wants to be my Peter Pan, I won't think twice about running away to Neverland or anywhere with him, just as long as it's far away from here. — Alexandria Bishop

I have been waiting around to get the right script and the right director. For example, in the past, if a Hollywood director came to me with a script and wanted me to play a character, and she was a stereotypical Asian woman who gets into a fight and gets killed off quickly, that didn't seem to have much interest for me. — Gong Li

Bodies always tell the truth. They give us hints of how to listen for it, and to recognize it when we hear or see it. — Robin Rose Bennett

One such accident had turned the librarian into an ape, since when he had resisted all attempts to turn him back, explaining in sign language that life as an orangutan was considerably better than life as a human being, because all the big philosophical questions resolved themselves into wondering where the next banana was coming from. Anyway, long arms and prehensile feet were ideal for dealing with high shelves. — Terry Pratchett

If I wasn't acting or doing stand-up, I would be in animation. Or if I had the discipline I might studies physics. — Chris Hardwick

Then the Warrior realizes that these repeated experiences have but one aim: to teach him what he does not want to learn. — Paulo Coelho

What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing. — Stephen Mitchell

It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest. — Stendhal